LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arbel
APRIL 13TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. Later it was learned that the flares were Holmes lights of the lifebuoys of the Belgian steamer Arbel, of Antwerp, which were...
Londesborough
PALLING, NORFOLK.—In response to signals of distress, during thick weather, a moderate breeze from the S.W., and a rough sea, the Life-boat British Workman was launched, at 8.30 A.M. on the 31st December, and proceeded to the Hasborongh Sand...
Bertha Jane
FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of January 27th, 1947, a fishing boat was seen making distress signals near the Kirk Rocks in Hoy Sound. The breeze, from the south- west, was light, but...
Nyria
MOTOR PLEASURE-BOAT BROKEN DOWN Torbay, Devon.—At 6.43 in the evening of the 7th of April, 1947, the Brixham coastguard reported that a motor pleasure boat had broken down three miles off Berry Head and was making signals of distress. A...
King Alexander
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on 23rd June, 1967, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel King Alexander and that help would be required when the vessel entered Mount's Bay. The life-boat Solomon...
Sprays of Flowers from Walmer Vice-Chairman Peter Broady (/) and Honorary Secretary Norman Cavell for Schermuly and Pains- Wessex Marchers (I to R) Barbara Ski
Sprays of flowers from Walmer vice-chairman, Peter Broady (/.), and honorary secretary, Norman Cavell, for Schermuly and Pains- Wessex marchers (I. to r.) Barbara Skinner, Petra Mercer, Sue Roberts, Debbie Groom and Evelyn Luff.
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Category: Photographs
Sark
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1947, a message was received from the piermaster that a yacht was drifting about two miles offshore and flying distress signals. A south-south-west gale was blowing,...
Coxwain William Sutherland, of Anstruther
The Anstruther station has lost not only one of its honorary secretaries, but, by the death of ex-Coxswain William Sutherland on 31st October, one of the oldest of its life-boatmen.
He joined the crew in 1894 and was...
Category: Obituaries
New Year's Honours
IN the New Year's Honours list, Mr.
Charles H. Barrett, who ha's been the honorary secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund since 1938, and Mr.
William Francis Thomas Powell, who has been...
Category: Awards
Brevet
TWO YACHTS TOWED IN Margate, Kent.—About 8.0 in the evening of the 4th of April, 1947, the motor yacht Brevet with seven on board, broke away from her moorings alongside the pier with a rope round her propeller and began to drift. A strong...